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May 09, 2024
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Xavier University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 2023-2024
Political Thought Minor
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The minor in Political Thought is an opportunity for students to pursue an interest in researching major issues and texts in political theory. The minor builds on students’ exposure to the question of justice and the best regime in Plato’s Republic, a text studied by all undergraduates in Philosophy 100 as part of the core. In the spirit of that course (which is not included in the minor), the Political Thought minor emphasizes landmark texts that raise fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of politics. Such questions may include: What is a political community? What is the best form of government? What is the philosophical basis of the American political system? What legitimates a regime or a body of law? What is the essence of justice? What are the rights and responsibilities of a citizen? What is a revolution and when is it justified? What are the proper relations between politics and ethics, and between politics and religion?
18 hours of coursework to be selected from the courses below. A 2.000 cumulative average must be attained in these courses.
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Political Science courses:
Notes:
- A 2.000 cumulative average must be attained in these courses.
- Other courses may count toward the minor if the student gains approval from the chairs of both the Philosophy Department and the Political Science Department. Ordinarily such courses will be offered by these two departments, but courses offered by other departments will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- If a Philosophy or Political Science major wishes to obtain a minor in Political Thought, that student must take at least one of the courses for the minor from the other department, i.e., the department in which he or she is not a major.
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